Applying materials on a Mac

- Now, let's take a look at how…to do materials on OS X.…The materials window on the Macintosh…is significantly different than Windows.…So, let's go through the process…with a Mac-centric viewpoint…and as I've said before,…you can use the materials window…to select color and texture for your models.…So, we can find it here under Windows, Materials.…Open it up and by default it brings you…to a standard color picker.…Now, we can select colors this way, this way.…

Now, the first four are just different ways to select color.…But we really want texture so I'm gonna select the last one,…the one that looks like a brick…and this brings up our color picker.…Now, if I hit the Home key, it'll bring us…to this tab that says Colors in Model.…And these are the all the colors that I have in my model.…Now, right now I don't have a lot.…I just have the default neutral colors.…But if I pull down this menu,…you'll see I have a lot of different choices…for color and texture.…

So, for example, if I select Brick and Cladding…it will bring up all different types of brick.…

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1/26/2015

Learn how to start drawing, designing, and animating your ideas with SketchUp, the 3D modeling toolkit used for everything from architectural rendering to game design. In this course, George Maestri leads viewers through the essentials of SketchUp: navigating around the interface, manipulating objects, drawing in 2D and 3D space, working with materials, and applying textures. He'll even show how to create simple animations and export your artwork in 2D and 3D formats.

These tutorials work with both SketchUp Make, the free version of the program, and SketchUp Pro.